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,Letters Patent No. 61,472, dated January 22, I867; antedated January 19, I867.

IMPROVEMENT m EMB'IALMINGJ BODIES.

TO ALL wHoM IT MAY ,concnnm Be it known that I, Gsoncn W. SCOLLAY, of the city and county of St: Louis, in the smear at present sojourning in Washington, in the'District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Art of Einbalming or Preserving Dead Bodies; and'I do hereby declare the following tube a full,*clea'r,

and I exact description of the same.

My invention consists in subjecting the body to the influence of an antiseptic gas or gases in suchimanner as to thoroughly incorporate the gas with or diffuse itthrough the body. I Inpractising my invention, I first generate or make in.any suitable receiver or retort some one ormorle of the antiseptic gases of which there are a great variety, but of which I prefer chlorine or carbonic acid-gas;

chlorine gas I think the most eflicientf' I then' take the body, either before or afterlit has been placed in'the l cofiin, and make an incision in the arterial or vascular system, in which incision I introduce the beak of-a flcxil blc tube connected to a receiver or reservoir in which the gas is generated or contained, said. tube being fitted with a cock or valve'to regulate the fiowof the gas. The connection having been thus made between the body" and the gas receiver or holder, I" open the stop-cock or valve, when the gas by the pressure obtained in genefr rating'itin the receiver forces itself through the entire vascular system, and thoroughly incorporates itselfwith the tissue or substance of the'body so as to preserve it from. putrefaction. This I think the best iuternahappli cation of the gas or gases, but they may be applied through .the rectum into the bowels, or through the-nosemr mouth into the stomach or lungs; but this method of applying the gases will not b'e'found s o ejfectual in susdeccmii'osi tion'of 'the entire body. In warm weather an injection of the gases into the bowels will be found a'valuable auiriliaryin embalmin'g, but to efifectually preserve the body in all its parts from pntrefaction, the introduction of the gases into the vascular'system will be found most efi'icieut, In practisingv my invention, a receiver or chamber may be made inthe cofin or in connection with it, and fitted with a tube which should be flexible, as described above, to make the connection betwen'the body and the chamber-before generating the gas, and the tube may be left without afstop-cock or valve so as to allow the gas to plough into the system 'as fast as geueiteted, and this plan may be pursued in embalming the body before it is put in the coflin, but my purpose is to make a chamber in the cofiin; or in close connection with it, to generate the gases in, so that the body can be put} into the coflin, em'balmed, closed up, and left'without further molestation. Iu

practising this invention, it may be fouud that the amount of gas which the body will hold at one time in either the bowels, stom'ach, or lungs,vor in the arterial or vascular-system, will not be suflicient to preserve it in warm weatherg'that is to say, the antiseptic elementscontainedin that amount of gas may not 'be suificie'nt to thoroughly einbalm the body; in which ca'se it will be necessary to cqntiuue the flow of the gas throfigh the vascular of arterial system until enough of the antiseptic element; has been incorporated with the tissue to preserve it; This continual flow of gas through-the vascular system I maintain by making an incisionin the lower extremity of each of the tibial arteries, and by inserting .the beak of the tubeE-in one of said incisions to introduce the gas to the arterial system, leaving the other iucisionopen for the gas to escape from after it has passed through the body.

In this application of the inv cntion, an air and ga'stight coflin is necessary to hold the gas in contact with the body after it has passed through it. y This is especially r'retessary when it is desired-to subject the body to the influnceof the ghses externally as well as inte'rnallyl But wheir the, body is tobe embalmed before it is put into the coiiiu, or in an vopeii coifin, by the internal application of the gas merely, a receiver must be used to catch the gas as it issues from the body. In some cases, after. the body has been embalmcd by the introduction of the gas into the vascular system,.as above stated, it may be, well to surround it "with an atmosphere of the embalminggas by placing it in a tight collin, and introducingthe gases,-as above stated, as an auxiliary to pre serve the body a very long time.

. {The essential feature of this invention is the, preservationof the body from putrefactiou by the application of antiseptic gases instead of antiseptic fluids, and the application may be extended to all sorts of meat or flesh. But I do not propose to'make the use of these gases to preserve all sorts of meats a part of this application. I merelyallude to it here to show that I have contemplated the application of these gases for that purpose.

Having now described the nature and extent of my invention, I claim, and desire to secure by Letters- Patent- 1. Embalming dead bodies or preserving them frbmputrefaction'by into the arterial or vasonlar system, Substantially as described.

2. Embalming dead bodies or preserying them from putrefaction by the-introduction of antiseptib gas or gases .into the bowels, stomach, or lungs, substantially asset forth.

3. Embalming (lead bodies or preservingfrom putrefaction b tion of the gases thex eto, substantially in the manner described.

introducing antiseptic gas or gases y combining the internal and external applica- GEORGE w. SGOLLAYJ .Witnesses I AMos Bnonmux, ED. BARTLETT; 

